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I have been describing this trip through four countries in Central America as having a theme of what people in the Global North can do to alleviate or reduce poverty. The trip is just finishing, and so I present here some of my thoughts – and some key thoughts from …

A few days ago, I found myself in the predawn gloom standing with my purple bag at a small bus company in La Ceiba. I was trying to get to a small town further along the Caribbean coast. My objective had been to take a 6am bus, but the taxi …

There is an irony in the comment of a Swiss traveller I met recently, who lamented that both Costa Rica and Honduras are insufficiently ´third world´to retain his interest. This sounds a bit arrogant. What he was reflecting was that homogenization of the streets and the food by multi-national companies …